I Spent 72 Hours Building a Survival Shelter in the Trees

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All right, so the plan is to head down to the sea because then I can catch some fish, hopefully. That is like the main source of food out here. And I'm also gonna build a shelter and I'm looking for trees. to build a shelter in because I want it to be a little bit elevated. Um... That's what they used to do back in the days. In Norway they would place cabins on like on poles just so that it would be a little bit off the ground which would help with cold humidity and also mice. So I'm just looking for trees that would fit. So it's really important to find a good spot. I'm not going to settle for something mediocre. I'm going to find some good trees. That could have been good, but the distance is too far. So I'm looking for three or four trees that are like pretty symmetrical, either a square or a triangle. I'm also just a few hundred meters from the sea right now. So it would be pretty ideal for fishing and also to wash stuff. Like the best thing would be if I was like close to a river and the sea, but can't have everything out here. It is a lot harder than I thought to find good symmetrical trees. It's around minus seven here now and I don't have a tent so if I don't find anywhere I need to sleep under me like a rock or something tonight but yeah a lot harder than I thought to find the to find trees to build it in and I also need to make a fire and catch fish. Pretty hard to be an outcast. I'm gonna keep looking. I was just randomly placing the camera here but those three look pretty good. You don't see it so well from here but My plan is to use that tree, that tree and the one behind there. I brought water this time because it's not as cold. So I mean not as cold as the cabin I went to a few videos ago. But yeah I keep them in the wool socks. Hopefully this is gonna stay liquid for a while. This time I brought real tools. Look at that. Power bank too for all the cameras. Working gloves, a little bit thinner. And then I have this axe. You can either use it like this. Or you can extend it with this. All right, I'm actually pretty excited to make this cabin. Thing is, I'm only going to use ropes, because I don't want to leave any nails in this forest. First I'm just going to collect. Some trees. So my plan is first to make some stilts. So I'm going to find some logs that will be vertically tied to each tree and then I'm going to put a lot of logs to make a flat surface and then the walls I'm going to build with branches and then I'm going to make a roof with the tarp that I have and I think I'm going to make it at around Two and a half, three meters. I think that's a good height. Higher than that, it becomes a little bit risky. So I'm just choosing the smaller and damaged trees. But it's amazing with good tools how much faster it is. And that's something I've been realizing after doing more of these adventure type videos that having good equipment and good tools is worth paying for. It's not exactly going quickly. And I'm trying to line up the vertical beams and that's going to act as like a little ledge for the horizontal log. Oh perfect! The foundation is the most time consuming part. Once the foundation is good I think I'm going to be quicker. I'm going to use a slip knot so I can really tighten it. Maybe it doesn't look like I'm that far but I feel like putting these logs up and then the horizontal logs that's going to be the main thing. And also making this ladder. It's gonna make it so much easier tomorrow but there's not that much daylight left so I need to hurry up and I need to find a shelter because I'm not going to sleep in that tonight that's for sure. So this right here is where I'm going to sleep tonight. It's not completely flat and there's like a rock sticking out. But I have two sleeping pads so I think I'll be all right. Not ideal, I also wish I got further on building the tree hut. I'm going to continue tomorrow very early. As soon as the sun comes up I'm going to start working on it again. I don't have time for this. I'm just going to cheat a little bit and use a fire starter. It's a little bit early to put the big ones on but just to dry them out a bit. A little bit of butter, that's completely frozen. So chicken leg, potatoes, asparagus. Pretty excited about this meal actually. I realized that I forgot something really important. My main sleeping pad. So I only have this thin one right now. That's gonna be a cold night I think. Can't believe I forgot that. This one is not warm at all. I'm a little bit disappointed with the lack of progress. It felt like I did a lot but it doesn't really show. But building a tree hut in the trees with only ropes is way harder than I thought it'd be. Yeah first night out. The first night I feel like is always really nice. It's the second and third then you start missing things at home but first night is always wonderful. So I'm untangling the ropes just because they're so much easier to tie if they're thinner. I tried a bunch of fancy knots in the beginning but I figured out this the simple ones are the best ones. And as you can see I'm starting to do the horizontal logs as well. And I even cut out a piece because I think it's not completely leveled so I'm going to put this to make it a little bit higher and my ladder is finished. Works pretty well. Okay now I have to find some logs going that way and that way and then I can start with the floor. So this ladder, I'm not going to jinx it because this is the biggest log I've had to place but this ladder works pretty well. I couldn't have done it without it that's for sure. That is perfect. Yeah I think I did most of the work yesterday. So far I've worked like two hours or something and uh Now things are happening really fast. And another key thing has been, you know, I have these little like wooden things that I hammer in between the logs. That has been really helpful because it makes them much more stable. So I actually have hopes now that this can work. Question is if I'm gonna have time to catch some fish today or if that's gonna have to wait tomorrow. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Now I'm looking for straight sticks to make the floor. This is rotten but I think it will do. The nice thing with the rotten ones is that they're really light, easy to carry. Oh, that whipped me in my face. Okay, good. Okay, I'm just gonna get a few more and then I'm gonna take a coffee break. This one. I'm really happy how this has been holding up. It's such a big advantage to have good tools. So I just have to adjust them a bit to make it as flat as possible. It's pretty stable. It is a little bit scary to be up here though, to be honest. I'm also curious how, if I had more time, how... Nice this would be because I could keep going probably for infinity, improve it, make it better. It's nice with a coffee break, but at the same time, I'm a little bit stressed about the time I have to build this. This morning, I was a little bit pessimistic. I didn't think maybe that I would be able to do it. But now, I think I'm going to get, I mean, it's going to be something at least. I really like being out here though. It's so peaceful doing these videos. Just me and the camera. I've seen comments where people say that, oh, but you have a support crew right around the corner or you have like cameraman hiding in the forest or whatever. I promise you, it's only me on these trips. I don't fake being alone. I like having to rely on myself a little bit. Why can't I put one of these here to compensate for the height difference? Look at my hands, constantly bleeding. Just a lot of waves today, but I gotta be a little bit careful not to slip in the water. Wow, look at that. And it's all covered in ice too. I am gonna start with this guy. To me it looks most realistic, but I don't know anything about fishing, so. Not very deep, so I have to like pull in pretty soon. It's not ideal fishing spot either, but I don't wanna go further out. So you can see the waves out there. I think it's stuck. Either that, I mean, it is coming a little bit. I am able to pull it, which is weird. Maybe it's stuck to something heavy that I'm pulling. I think it's completely stuck. Oh, there we go. I got it loose. That's nice. Well, I got something at least. Some seagrass. Just have to pull in a little bit earlier and then straight away start pulling. Gonna change the bait. If there's any fish out there, it's definitely gonna see this. I don't think this is an ideal spot, but all the other cliffs are covered in ice. I guess it would have been better further out. This place is not that deep, and I think also when the sea is this rough, the fish are probably dealing with other stuff than trying to catch food. I'm changing from this guy to this little one. Okay, come on little guy. For good luck. I think I'm gonna do one throw on the other side too maybe. A fisherman's best friend is patience. I feel like I've had a lot of patience, but there's no fish. I don't think this is the spot, or this is not the day. Some of you maybe wonder if climbing skills is valuable for this and yeah I think it is. Climbing the ladder and also with ropes and regards to safety. I think this is pretty safe. Oh yeah that feels really great. If I can just put up the walls and then it's just a tarp covering it. I'm hoping that this will be the fun part. I'm just going to put it very loose in the beginning because I'm going to have to make some adjustments. So the plan is that I'm going to stab a hole, poke a hole through the tarp. On the other side I have this guy. Wow, the knife goes so easy through. Look at this. Gotta say though this turned out way better than I hoped. Yesterday I was like so stressed that I wasn't making any progress. But then today it's been super easy and fun. Once this tree hut is done it's gonna be hard to leave it I think. I wanted to get one of those, I don't know if you guys seen the there's some metal I don't know. stoves that you can bring camping. I wanted to bring one of those and install it in this tree hut. Next time I'm going to order one of those. That would have been really cozy. Yeah kind of Kind of the plan of this was to not bring any fancy... tools. So I have a very good saw and an axe but they had that in the medieval times too. I'm so happy I made that Y. It spreads the tent out more. I just have to fill in the open gaps and then I'm gonna be done I think. It's gonna get dark in about an hour so I need to keep up the pace if I want to finish this in time. Now I'm just gonna make some lines going down here as well. This would be like a very good like military hideout as well. It's not very visible. The good news is even if I don't finish it completely tonight I'm still gonna sleep in it. It's gonna be much much better than the one camp I have set up. This rope is pretty trash though. Only reason I'm using it is because it's what they used in the old days. I don't know how that looks like from the outside but from in here it looks pretty good. I actually did not expect it to look this good. Oh, it's gonna be so cozy. I even brought some candles. I don't know why I'm so happy. I mean, it's not that amazing. But to be able to build this in one and a half days, only using ropes, I am pretty happy. And just how stable it is. Oh, it's so much softer now. And it's actually flat. That's amazing. This cabin is amazing. I'm so excited about this. So this is how the tree hut looks from the inside. It's getting really dark but as you can see it's really nice and cozy. I don't know if you guys see how spacious this is but really nice. Great success. And I brought some candles. Be careful with fire up here but these you close the lid should be fine. I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow. That snow was... So much better, but I gotta say it did feel a little bit colder. I think it was because I was sleeping next to the fire. I thought the fire didn't have any effect because it like stopped and the wind was blowing pretty hard. What is that song? Sitting in a tree. Thank you. I don't know it too. I shouldn't sing songs that I don't know. But there's some there's some song about sitting in a tree. Oh is it sitting in a tree kissing? I think is that yeah is that Uh, kissing in a tree, uh, uh, uh, uh, element of, ah, I'm definitely feeling really exhausted though, from all this, uh, building and stuff, carrying and chopping wood. The pepper is frozen. The thing is when you're hungry, everything tastes so good anyways. Salt and pepper in one, pretty handy. This has turned into a cooking show. I just wish there was some fish. I have caught big fish in in our way. But I don't think that spot was ideal. I'm not going to pretend like I know a lot about fishing because I really don't. This is where I'm eating vegetables. Maybe I would have to go vegan if I lived out here when I'm so bad at catching food. I really look forward to this. Put a little bit of butter on that as well. Make sure it's nice and juicy and this probably doesn't have to cook that long. Right now you probably think that I look and sound really worked and it could sound like I'm not enjoying this. But I really enjoy being worked and just being physically tired. I don't know, there's something very basic about making a shelter, surviving out in the woods with a little bit of gear, but minimal, that I really enjoy. And I can't wait for the spring and summer, because that opens up so many more possibilities, you know, to do stuff like this. Okay, I think it's time. Oh yeah, look at that. That is really good. Look at my hands. These are some real working hands. It's crazy how stable this shelter is though. Like it's not moving at all. Unfortunately, I didn't catch any fish. That was the only bummer. Other than that, I'm pretty happy. So thank you for watching this adventure and I will see you next time.